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TA New Heart of Campus
HE NEWLY OPENED Wausau’s engineering team previ- University of Nebraska-Lincoln ously worked with RAMSA on such notable (UNL) College of Business building projects as The Clarendon Boston residential
quickly is becoming known as the “heart of the UNL campus,” thanks to its prominent location and distinctive design featuring curtainwall from Wausau Window and Wall Systems. Demonstrating the importance of this project, alumni and private donations funded the $84 million construction project.
According to the project’s lead architect, New York-based Robert A.M. Stern Archi- tects (RAMSA), Wausau’s curtainwall was used to “provide a sense of both openness and permanence” for the new College of Business building. Alley Poyner Macchi- etto Architecture (APMA) served as the project’s associate architect.
The new five-story, 240,000-square- foot building sits at the east end of the campus’s iconic Memorial Mall.
tower, Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business and Virginia’s Richmond Federal Courthouse. “Thanks to a good relationship and solid history of successful projects with RAMSA and APMA, we were involved early in the project,” says Doug Laffin, Wausau’s architectural sales representative.
“We were able to propose an engineered solution to match their design goals, as
well as to provide input on realistic budget pricing and meeting the aggressive sched- ule.” Wausau’s INvision unitized curtain- wall systems were established as the basis of design. General contractor Hausmann Con- struction selected City Glass Co. and Glass Edge as the glazing contractors. Together, they installed more than 60,000 square feet of Wausau’s curtainwall.
The new College of Business Building at UNL achieves a sense of openness thanks to a Wausau curtainwall.
With respect to longevity, the new College of Business replaces the former 98-year-old college, which had become too small to hold the more than 5,200 business students, faculty, and staff who use the building each academic year.
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MUniversity Saves Money on Quality Projectors
ICHIGAN Technological laptop support, document camera, Panopto University is a public research lecture capture and projector. We started university and home to more primarily using Hitachi when the collegiate
than 7,000 undergraduate and graduate stu- dents. Courses at Michigan Tech include sci- ence and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, mathematics, health professions, and more. On campus, there are more than 100 classrooms, confer- ence rooms, and distance learning centers all complete with multimedia setups.
When it comes to fitting these spaces with the proper AV equipment, Paul Raymond, senior media systems engineer at Michigan Tech, turns to Hitachi and its OneVision program.
“We have different AV setups in our classrooms depending on the size and what the classrooms are used for,” says Ray- mond. “Most of the classrooms are set up with a Crestron control system, computer,
series came out. We have used projectors from other manufacturers, but Hitachi is the only one we found to be consistent. We have standardized on the Hitachi collegiate series of projectors. Currently, a lot of our classrooms are fitted with the CP-WU5505.
The Hitachi OneVision program for higher education facilities provides educa- tors with specialized pricing, enhanced service, direct access to Hitachi experts and program rewards. These rewards include offers to buy 10 projectors and get one projector free, or buy three projectors and get one lamp free.
“The primary perk of the OneVision program that we have taken advantage
of is the buy 10 projectors get one free,” says Raymond. “We’ve received three free
Hitachi’s OneVision Program helped Michigan Technologi- cal University get incentives and specialized pricing when it came time to buy new projection equipment.
projectors from the program already and expect to receive a fourth soon. We also appreciate the advantage of the program’s exclusive offers. We’re excited to advance our classroom technology forward with the laser projectors.” CPM
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